was engaged in mendacity and this was a cover- up and we were tried to mislead the american people? of course not. it was not true. very disappointed that she did not come up there and list the things that they wanted to church. there is no substance of what they're trying to suggest. >> people who take on hillary clinton do so at their own risk. then these hearings, as they proved -- >> what about the charge of the people who are criticizing the state department to the effect that the ambassador had asked for more help, more protection, more security? >> the consequences of that, people had been fired, dismissed because of that. but secretary clinton was right about one thing. hundreds of thousands of cables for into the state department every day. there are all addressed to the secretary of state but also that siphoned off to other people. there were people in the department responsible for responding to those requests. they did not respond in a timely fashion and there are consequences to that. not enough to make up for the loss of four lives, but it is not as though they ignore